There was tension in Imo State on Monday ahead of today’s sitting by the Supreme Court on an application filed by the immediate past governor of the state, Emeka Ihedioha, seeking a review of the ape
x court’s judgment on the state 2019 governorship election.
In the application, Ihedioha asks the apex court to set aside its January 14, judgment which annulled his election and declared the APC candidate in the 2019 election, Hope Uzodinma, as the winner of the poll. But Ihedioha, through his lead counsel, Chief Kanu Agabi , a former Attorney General of the Federation, had on February 5, 2020 filed an application before the court seeking “an order setting aside as a nullity” the January 14 judgment.
He said that the protests being embarked on by various groups since the Supreme Court gave its judgment on January 14, were “life-threatening”. But his APC counterpart, Enyinnaya Onuegbu, said that the party was confident that Uzodinma would remain as the governor of the state after the Supreme Court review.
The PDP, therefore, asked the CJN, to reconstitute a new panel to review the judgment to ensure that fairness and justice were not only done, but seen to have been done.
“The right to an independent and impartial tribunal is a major factor in determining if fair hearing has been observed by a court. The relevant question on the issue of bias is what an ordinary man on the street would think about the fairness of the proceedings conducted by judges accused of likelihood of bias. We may even be wrong on the allegations made against the learned justices of the Supreme Court that sat on the case in question.
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